Meaning

Primary

Dust Cloth

Alternative

House Cloth

Word Type

noun

Explanation

A miscellaneous cloth is a dust cloth or house cloth. It's just a cloth that you use on random things.

Reading

ぞうきん
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

The reading of is different from what you've learned. Instead of ざつ it's ぞう. Just imagine using this dust cloth to wipe down a (ぞう). Its trunk is particularly dusty.

Context

Context Sentences

コウイチに雑巾を売り込もうと電話を掛けたんだけど、全く相手にされなかったよ。

I called Koichi trying to sell him our dust cloth, but he didn’t want anything to do with me.

Kanji Composition